§30-4B-1 Definitions. - West Virginia Statutes

§30-4B-1. Definitions.
As used in this article, the following words and terms have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

(1) "Board" means the West Virginia board of dental examiners;

(2) "Dental laboratory" means a business performing dental laboratory services: Provided, That there is excluded from the definition dentists and other dental practitioners performing dental laboratory services and persons performing dental laboratory services under the direct supervision of a dentist or other dental practitioner in cases where dental laboratory services are performed in connection with, and as a part of, the dental practice of the dentist or other dental practitioner and for his or her dental patients;

(3) "Dental prosthesis" means an artificial appliance fabricated to replace one or more teeth or other oral or peri-oral structure in order to restore or alter function and aesthetics;

(4) "Dental laboratory service" means the fabricating, repairing or altering of any dental prosthesis;

(5) "Dental laboratory technician" means a person qualified by education, training and experience who has completed a dental laboratory technology education program and who fabricates, repairs or alters a dental prosthesis in accordance with a dentist's work authorization;

(6) "Dentist" means a dentist licensed pursuant to the provisions of article four of this chapter;

(7) "Other dental practitioner" means those persons excluded from the definition of the practice of dentistry under the provisions of subsections (3), (4) and (5), section twenty-nine, article four of this chapter and also those persons who hold temporary permits to practice dentistry or teaching permits which have been issued to them under the provisions of section fourteen, article four of this chapter; and

(8) "Work authorization" means a written order for dental laboratory services which has been issued by a licensed dentist or other dental practitioner.